Matt Gabriele

20 Jan

guys i promised some news and here it is... I'm writing another book. Look for VIOLENCE: A CHRISTIAN HISTORY in bookstores in late 2027/ early 2028

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related, i've been really leaning into asking my students how they're doing. noting if they've been out for a bit, checking in on them. they're universally grateful someone care. 10/10 no notes. recommend.

Matt Gabriele@profgabriele.com

The kids are alright, man

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oh, as a teacher, I can tell you that's a "i didn't read it" sentence

Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social

It is short and so I assume they are looking into things but it is... interesting... that the NYT piece on the new House Dems report on Trump ties to Epstein simply does not mention the brand new rape allegation and says whatever this is instead www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/u...

The kids are alright, man

Happy Tuesday #medievalsky

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question for historians: we hear a lot of "you gotta judge them by the standards of their times" nonsense to justify horrors from the past, but do you know any examples of people using that same ARGUMENT in the past? like I cannot IMAGINE medievals saying "well, Athens was another time you see"

14h

guys i know it's a bad argument. this isn't my first day. please don't respond unless you have a specific historical example of someone, before the 21st century, using that argument.

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theguardian.comBayeux tapestry becomes pop culture hit as young people more keen to see exhibition than top filmsMonzo says 55% of its payments to British Museum in first hour of latest ticket release were by people under 35

The children yearn for the medieval (laudatory) www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

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this suuuuuucks

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readsludge.comMusk-Linked Dark Money Network Funded the Group Behind Cornel West’s Ballot PushPeople Over Party raised $7.7 million in 2024, all of it from the nonprofit behind the Fair Election Fund, which in turn got every dollar from a Musk-funded dark money group.

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Cornel West sucks

Sludge@sludge.bsky.social

NEW: The group behind Cornel West's 2024 ballot push was wholly funded through Elon Musk's dark money network, according to Sludge's review of tax documents. readsludge.com/2026/10/26/m...

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it used to be embarrassing to sell out

bit.lyHow Joe Biden and the National Democratic Party Paved the Way For American FascismI’m angry at MAGA leaders every day for the lies and manipulation and wreckage they’ve wrought on the very people who voted for them—not to mention the rest of us. I’m angry when I see faith manipu…

this is only true if you woke up in 2024 and Trump 1 and the entire Republican Party across the last half century and more didn't exist but it's an excerpt from an interior designer and podcaster turned political commentator so this is the level of commentary we deserve I guess

Lit Hub@literaryhub.bsky.social

Why the road to American fascism was paved by Joe Biden and the Democratic Party.

en.wikipedia.orgI've Had It (podcast) - Wikipedia

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they literally woke up in 2024, which better late than never but c'mon now en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27ve_...

pilotonline.comWarner, Anthropic launch new AI tool to help military families find resources

OR YOU COULD DO YOUR JOB, MARK AND HELP THEM

The Virginian-Pilot@pilotonline.com

Warner, Anthropic launch new AI tool to help military families find resources: https://mrf.lu/2HBWj

making "ghosts are protestant" my entire personality now

i like arguing about dumb shit on here. make me feel like a 13th-century scholastic at one of the lesser medieval universities arguing about how many angels can fit into a loaf of rye bread

The children yearn for the medieval (laudatory) www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

slate.comEvery Era Has Its Own Way of Thinking About the Middle Ages. Here’s 2025’s.Tapestries, stone walls, chain mail, crossbows. This era’s medieval mashup has it all.

Me and @lollardfish.bsky.social wrote about this a bit ago. Also recently I was talking with curators at the Met and they said that visits to the Cloisters (the medieval collection) have skyrocketed since their SPECTRUMS OF DESIRE exhibition slate.com/news-and-pol...

This should be the @medievalacademy.bsky.social writing press releases until their fingers burn. Ride this wave!

This is… correct?

Jay Hulme@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social

Vampires are inherently Catholic. Werewolves are inherently Protestant. Zombies are inherently Atheist. Thank you for coming to my presentation.

Oh so the Democrats are gonna WIN win

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

CNBC: Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees www.cnbc.com/2026/10/26/m...

American Medieval Podcast

The global far right is global. Opposition to it should be too

Dan Mauler 🎃@meelar.bsky.social

I just think Matt's wrong about this. We're at a point in our technological development where a ton of problems spill over national borders--if Flavio Bolsonaro burns down the Amazon, that will flood houses in Miami.

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@americanmedieval.bsky.social

Yoooooooo special SPOOKY SEASON episode coming up Wednesday with @mikkibrock.bsky.social talking about WITCHES AND DEMONS! 🧙‍♀️👹🧹🔥

this person is a wrecker

I, posting on Bluesky, the niche microblogging app, am pure. everyone else who votes against the fascists is complicit in eugenics.

you're not a serious person

lamop.hypotheses.orgSéminaire 2026-2027 : Formes de domination au haut Moyen Âge (Ve-Xe s.)Séminaire dirigé par Sylvie Joye. Les séances du séminaire se tiennent en Sorbonne le jeudi de 15h à 17h en salle Perroy (galerie Dumas, escalier R, 2e étage) Programme au format PDF PROGRAMME Semestr...

This seems tied to the panic about kids going no contact with their parents

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social

cool, cool

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Laboratoire LaMOP

@labo-lamop.bsky.social

Séminaire du LaMOP (2026-2027) : Histoire et Anthropologie du haut Moyen Âge - Formes de domination au haut Moyen Âge (Ve-Xe s.), dirigé par Sylvie Joye, le jeudi de 15h à 17h, à la Sorbonne, salle Perroy. Plus de détails : lamop.hypotheses.org/17791

Does democracy bc and accountability matter I gravely intone

Cardinal News@cardinalnews.org

Republicans have moved away from such meetings in favor of tele-town halls. Democrats say they’re hiding; Republicans say they’re reaching more people. https://mrf.lu/2HpMW

@herberthistory.bsky.social

Please stop posting dipshit nobody takes from Twitter to use as your straw men

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Jason Herbert

At PDX and I run into fellow fiends @profgabriele.com @americanmedieval.bsky.social @lollardfish.bsky.social

reddit.comFrom the VirginiaTech community on RedditExplore this post and more from the VirginiaTech community

This is both hopeful and bleeeeeeaaaaak www.reddit.com/r/VirginiaTe...

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Big Frickin' Swede

@bigfrickinswede.bsky.social

This. And if most Americans weren't aware of this in 2019, I'd guess they're even less so now. Public university students were paying for a third of the cost of their education in 2009, and it was up to half by 2019. 2009 wasn't great compared to the 60s-70s, either. www.pbs.org/newshour/edu...

pbs.orgMost Americans don't realize state funding for higher ed fell by billionsSpending is down by $9 billion over the last decade, driving tuition up and frustrating the search for skilled workers.

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theguardian.comLime bike jousts? Why youth culture is embracing the medieval eraFrom chainmail-wearing pop stars to high-fashion catwalks, the spirit of the middle ages is erupting into the zeitgeist

Actually just watched and boy does it suck

Jon Dell Isola@medievaljon.bsky.social

Ok that new Robin Hood movie is on HBO, time to lock in #medievalsky

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Oleg Benesch

@olegb.bsky.social

There is indeed "a medievalism for everyone" Lime bike jousts? Why youth culture is embracing the medieval era www.theguardian.com/global/2026/...

UPDATE: I have all the side effects. I want to crawl into a hole

Matt Gabriele@profgabriele.com

Hello from in the side effects of the 2nd dose of a shingles vaccine

Hello from in the side effects of the 2nd dose of a shingles vaccine

Guys I’ve also had shingles I get it but still woof

THE MIGHTY LEYTON ORIENT

Chinny Honk@chinnyhonk.bsky.social

Fair play to The Os 👌

i do understand that material conditions matter to some voters, but they very much do not to others and we need to acknowledge that

brent 🌹🗽@therealbrent.bsky.social

Please just don’t vote

i loved Deathloop. such a fun, funny game

Aysha@ayshaufarah.bsky.social

A game I think really got slept on is Deathloop. Extremely stylish, interesting conceit, fun protagonist, leans into Arkane’s main strength i.e. sending you on stealth missions to kill a bunch of weird perverts

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lauren

i don't suppose anyone has strong opinions about the best breakfast options at terminal 8 at jfk? is alidoro the move. you all have approximately 30 minutes to help me out here

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Margot Finn

@eicathomefinn.bsky.social

Chris Wickham, remembered fondly, appreciated finely.

theguardian.comChris Wickham obituaryHistorian who explored the nature of change in the creative and dynamic world that followed the fall of the Roman empire

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux

Hey #medievalsky another fascist medievalist - Philip Nothaft

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Actually, positive change is slow, difficult and incremental by nature. Destroying is fast, building is slow. It is easy to bring misery to people - any idiot can do it, as Trump shows - but very hard to improve their conditions. Building a better society is slow, careful, patient work.